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Our bookstore is located at 140 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, Johannesburg. Our own titles as well as books from other South African and international publishers are available in the store and on this site. We are the sole distributors in southern Africa of books from Tate Publishing (UK), Assouline (USA), Nazraeli (USA). We specialise in books on contemporary art, architecture, graphic design and monographs.
Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911 and moved to New York City in 1938. She is considered to be one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Her sculptures, paintings, drawings, monumental installations, and graphic work form a polymorphic ensemble that defies any singular aesthetic classification. Bourgeois applies this rich diversity [...]
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Rembrandt – British Museum
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–69) is considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European history, and was at the forefront of what became known as the Golden Age of Dutch art. Achieving recognition from an early age, his work continued to be appreciated throughout his lifetime and beyond
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Ingres – Erotic Drawings
Best known for his celebrated paintings of classical odalisques, Ingres reveals his provocative and erotic art in this collection of sensual drawings. This book places the intimate drawings and paintings of Ingres within the context of the old masters and elucidates his place in the evolution of art in the nineteenth century. Famous for his [...]
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K.H.Hodicke, Charcoal Drawings 1975-1982
On the occasion of his seventieth birthday, K.H. Hödicke — a pioneer of German New Figuration in the 1970s — here presents his large-format charcoal drawings from 1975 to 1982. Filled with erotic, urban energy, these drawings capture the style that was so influential to the 80s generation of Berlin artists.
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Julie Mehretu: City Sitings
In her celebrated large-scale paintings, which are built up with layers of acrylic paint on canvas and overlaid with gestural pen and ink marks, Ethiopian-born, New York-based artist Julie Mehretu explores issues of mobility, social organization, political entanglement and global competition.
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Compass in Hand: Selection from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporaty
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, acquired by the Museum in 2005, is an extraordinary collection of over 2,500 contemporary works on paper. Through a selection of more than three hundred works, this first comprehensive presentation of the gift surveys the various methods and materials within the styles of gestural and geometric abstraction, representation [...]
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Kiki Smith: Her Home
Born in 1954 in Nuremberg, Germany, but raised in an artistic family in South Orange, New Jersey (her father was the American sculptor Tony Smith), Kiki Smith has always occupied herself with questions of the human body and condition. Unlike classical figurative sculpture, which hides the insides of the body, Smith’s work often visualizes the [...]
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Ben Nicholson
Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) is widely considered to be one of the most important artists to have emerged from Britain in the last hundred years. In the early 1920s he first saw Cubist paintings and began producing Cubist-influenced works: other informative influences included the Cornish naive painter Alfred Wallis; the sculptor Barbara Hepworth who became his [...]
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Fashion Design Drawing Course
Organized into units to reflect the courses of top design colleges, this book covers every aspect of fashion illustration, from finding the inspiration for fabulous designs to the techniques that will allow you to put your ideas across with irresistible effect. |
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